River News
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A six-year-old Brazilian girl has died after being eaten alive by piranhas when she fell into the river she was canoeing along on January 27. The piranhas tore all the flesh from her legs.
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Rixensart -
Staff working at a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) facility dumped more than 45 liters of concentrated live polio into the water at a Belgian treatment plant earlier this month.
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Shanghai -
An ancient sword has accidentally been discovered by an 11-year-old boy playing in a river in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province.
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San Francisco -
Part of its outreach as an environmental advocacy non-profit, The Tuolumne River Trust provides opportunities for education and expedition along the river, which stretches for 149 miles-
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An antibiotic resistance gene has been detected in wastewater treatment plants in northern China, according to a new report. The discovery could trigger a rise in antimicrobial resistance and hence a health threat.
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Jilin -
In the northeast of China, Jilin City is divided by a river that is bordered by colorful buildings which look even more wintery in their first cover of snow.
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New York -
A Metro-North passenger train derailed just north of Manhattan on Sunday morning and reportedly several carriages plunged into the Hudson River. Four people have been killed and 67 have been injured, according to the most recent update.
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Cloppenburg -
The girl had taken her pony out on Sunday afternoon, but her parents became worried when she failed to return home on time. Local police went searching and found the girl trying to rescue her pony from a muddy swamp near a river.
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My first glimpse of China was at Li Shui, southwest of Shanghai, where I began teaching children at a private Chinese school.
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London -
Thirty tourists were forced to jump off a burning London Duck Tour amphibious craft into the River Thames as it sank on Sunday. While cold and wet, nobody was severely hurt.
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Henley On Thames -
Possibly one of the most picturesque and quaint parts of the River Thames is the stretch between Henley-on-Thames and Marlow.
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New York -
Authorities claim that the second body has been discovered and pulled from the Hudson River. They found the body near where a bride-to-be and her fiance's best man went missing after a boat crash near the Tappan Zee Bridge.
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Meishan -
As the clean up of around 16,000 pig carcasses nears its end in southwest China's Sichuan province, now 1,000 dead ducks have been pulled from the Nanhe River in Meishan City, Pengshan County.
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Tennessee is ripe with beautiful lakes, streams, rivers and natural areas perfect for a weekend hike, with perhaps some of the best lying half way between Nashville and Knoxville.
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Montreal -
She wanted to be photographed in her wedding dress one last time, but as the newlywed bride posed beside the Ouareau River in Quebec, she lost her footing on the slippery rocks and was swept away by the river current.
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The first major review of freshwater lakes, rivers and streams in Minnesota has found evidence of pollutants and chemicals which have originated from personal-care products.
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Delaware -
A rabid beaver attacked a 51 year old Scout leader in Eastern Pennsylvania on August 2nd. The beaver bit the man on the leg, buttocks, torso and hand.
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Shandong -
Police in Shandong China received a call reporting that a body was floating in one of the province's rivers on July 11. The Shandong police dispatched a team of their finest officers to recover the body that turned out to be an inflatable sex doll.
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Moscow -
An act of heroism leads to a stolen car in Moscow. A man who witnessed a car crash jumped out of his car to save a drowning woman and, upon his return, found his car had been stolen.
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Oxford and Cambridge were going neck and neck until suddenly the Cambridge boat stopped. They had spotted the head of a person swimming in the Thames right near Oxford's oars. The video of the incident is going viral on many news sites.
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Bandera -
Along the cypress-lined banks of the Medina River, the annual Bandera RiverFest held Saturday at City Park featured a wide range of family events including an anything-that-floats river parade, live music, BBQ cook-off, kayak races, and more.
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Edmonton -
New research shows increased levels of some carcinogenic chemicals associated with oil sands mining along Canada’s Athabasca River and discredits industry and government long-held claims of natural sources being responsible.
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Shanghai -
Environmental deterioration in the Three Gorges Dam region of China is forcing the government to acknowledge “urgent problems” which include landslides, seismic activity, relocations of citizens, and biodiversity loss.
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Washington -
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has led to the naming of the Susquehanna River as America’s most endangered river in an annual report listing the top ten rivers in the country at environmental risk from factors such as coal, uranium and sewage.
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Residents of Canada's Vancouver Island will be sleeping easier now that they know what led to the completely bizarre neon green discoloration of one of the major rivers flowing through the south part of the island.
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Earlier report on the Cambodian bridge stampede put the death toll at 25. But latest report from AFP now place the casualties at 339 in the annual water festival participated by millions of Cambodians.
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London -
While a homeless man was busy saving a woman from drowning in the Thames, someone stole the clothing and flask he had left in the bank of the river.
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The fun run for the rehabilitation of Metro Manilas' heavily polluted river which organizers refer to as "10.10.10., A Run for Pasig River" , was joined by 116,086 participants, according to Gina Lopez of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc.
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Close to 175,000 people have joined Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos in a foot race around Metro Manila Sunday to raise funds for the rehabilitation of Pasig River.
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Melbourne -
Weeks after heavy rain, Australians are enjoying recreation, farming, and renewed habitat for virtually all wildlife along the nation's largest river. This -- after more than a decade of drought.
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River Image
A view of the Selenga River. Wikipedia
Ducks on the bank of the canal, early in the morning as the sun comes up.
View of the mountains on the Cumberland Plateau.
Schwäbisch Hall: the town and the river on display.
A small waterfall is a central feature in the park
The bridge lights up at night
Streams, creeks and rivers abound between Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake.
Spanish moss hanging from Oak trees along the Waccamaw River walk.
Stunning waterfalls in Croatia
Streams, creeks and rivers abound between Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake.
Schwäbisch Hall, in the town center.
Many waterways in Illinois could already have been polluted by microbeads. Angelika Lindner via wikimedia
Manatee's seen in Kings Bay
A dock and factory on the Detroit River
Vartry River with its crystal clear waters flowing through Mount Usher Gardens in County Wicklow, Eire
A friend stands on the frozen Rouge River
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SHIPMENT: Boeing 737 fuselages are hauled by a freight train passing by Boeing Field near Seattle in May. Kentaro Iemoto/Wikimedia Commons
Two friends fishing in a small boat on a river
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